Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-12
STIRRING UP STRIFE.

press of Central and Northern California
some Of our southern contemporaries reit-
crate, day after day, that at the north the
south IL being misrepresented, vilified and
abused, and that unfair and jisreputable
means are employed to prevent immigra-,
ton TO that section. 1t really appears as
if our contemporaries are not only resolved
not TO he convinced, but are solicitousIy
anxious TO aggravate some one at the north
to assail their section. So far at least as
the stranger reading these journals is con-
cerned, the false impression is made upon
his mind that the southern region of our
common heritage is the object of vicious
and unmanly assault by the press and peo-
pie Of the State somewhat northerly To-
Gated from Los Angeles. Nevertheless,
let our southern contemporaries be once
more assured that they are battling with
the air and their fancy only. The sup
posed assaults to which they refer are
either the COMPUTATIONS of their imagina-
tons or their desire.
Nothing is further from the truth than
the charge that the people of the north are
either jealous of southern prosperity, or
are engaged in any effort whatever to in
jure OF misrepresent that section. The
RECORD UNION, with daily access to
the representative and reputable pa
pers Of the State, familiar with the
expression of the people, and informed of
all activities intended to invite desirable
immigration to this portion of the State
and to develop its resources, is competent
to pass Judgment in this matter, and it
unhesitatingly gives emphatic contradic-
ton to the charge referred to- 1t is the
smallest kind of journalism, the most ig-
noble policy imaginable, and altogether
contemplate procedure, to continue, as
many of our southern contemporaries do
in the repetition of these false charges
The decency and self-respect of the people
OF the south ought to be made manifest in
the outspoken disapproval we know they
feel for this back-alley sort of tactics.
The Los Angeles Times of the 18th ms.
speaks Of " the jealous north swapping at
u.s. Yet within the week in which it
wrote, the RECoRD-UNIoN denounced the
assault of the New York Herald upon Los
Angeles, and pointed out the motive I'M
DERIVING the misrepresentation. Nor has
there been paper north of Los Angeles
that has approved the HerulGS contempti-
BILE charge, or referred to it otherwise than
to express its detestatisn of such shame
less assaults
The Los Angeles Herald of the 9th
instant descends to the lower levels
of meudacity, ill-concealed in drapery
of innuendo and strained humor, ia
which it refers contemptuously to "the
famous northern citrus belt to 'untimely
frosts," to proposed excursions from the
south northward, which it intimates are
deceptive and fraudulent 1t proceeds,
with affected sarcasm, to speak of the CEN
trail and northern section as region
whose inhabitants and press persistently
and with malice aforethought misrepre-
sent us and all belonging to u.s." adding
They are quite welcome to fish in our pools
which we have stocked with trout from Eastern
streams. They are welcome also to all the fish
they can catch, and they are welcome to all
they can make fecundate in the streams which
now from the glaciers along the sides of Shasta.
This bit of ill-disguised deceit is forti
fed by reference to and exaggeration of
the phenomenal furry of snow two years
ago that visited a large portion of the
State for few hours, and which has had
its parallel in Los Angeles county and
even below that point The press of the
north would be more justified i'll referring
with emphasis and much enlargement, to
the harmless showers Of hailstones which
fell in Southern California only Yesterday.
Neither instance proves anything
for or against the State or any
claims made for it. The article
concludes with this weak and very
fabby example of editorial writing, but
which is evidently intended, beneath a
seeming Of RIGHTEOUSNESS to give the
stranger a false idea of the climatology of
this section of the State:
This year the greedy real estate men of the
central counties propose to get their work in a
biz ahead of the season. October is expected to
prove more propitious than February But ma
lure ebhors lie as much as a vacuum and
started in the night before last with terrific
Wini, accompanied by some snow in spots all
the way from Shasta to san Francisco Friends
there Is no telling-it may Snow M there in yorr
orange groves in October as well as in February
You had better start your excursions along
about the Fourth of July
There has been 10 year since California
was known to civilization, and it is the
hope Of all who understand the relation of
river sources to valleys, that there never
will be q year in which the snow does not
fall upon the lofty SUBMITS Of the Sie.ras.
Nature has this year, as in all the years
gone by, sent her early SHOWS upon the ten
or twelve thousand feet attitudes of the great
range in the north, and as far as eastern
Oregon; indeed, for scores of miles the
towering crests of this mighty chain OF
uplifted grandeur are crowned the year
round with eternal SHOWS, which give fer
tilizing life to the streams that reach the
warm foothills and valleysfar below. But to
say that in this month, or any other of the
year, snow fell in spots from Shasta to San
Francisco is not to do, as the Herald well
says nature does abhor a lie 1t is with
more than reluctance that the RECORD.
UNION refers to these matters, since it is
convinced that contention between sections
of the State is unwise, unmanly, and so fan
as the press is concerned, is beneath the
dignity of self-respecting journalism. But
these latter instances of untruth and nm.
wisdom are too fragrant to be permitted to
pass wholly unsoticed, the more since the
editor-in-chief of the HERALD was for 50
many years resident of this section and
In his personal capacity is so well aware of
the mendacious character of the deceptive
article that prostitutes his journal to the
service of a false and ,,nbaaI,I, -.